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Gadfly

@gadflypod.bsky.social
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Gadfly is a podcast about third parties, fringe candidates, and generally weird American electoral history. Hosted by Dusty Wilson & Oona O'Leary. www.buzzsprout.com/760511

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Gadfly @gadflypod.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
But anything outside Cali, let alone a national presidential run, and he's going to throw an immense fit before shutting it all down. Or there's the more likely possibility, that he'll get bored of this by the end of the summer and we'll never hear about it until he needs an attention boost. 3/3
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Gadfly @gadflypod.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Starting a 3rd party requires not only patience, but a strict adherence of election law to even get people on the ballot, let alone win seats. If he is serious about this (and he has decent advisors), he would start with running in CA due to their low ballot access threshold. 2/3
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Gadfly @gadflypod.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Hey, y'all! Just hopping on real quick to note Elon Musk's desire the start a new third party called the America Party. On one hand, congrats on picking the most generic, overused name. On the other, this is never going to happen. 1/3
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Gadfly @gadflypod.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
The past five years have been such a blast and we will keep the past episodes online for as long as we financially can. Also, if you want an occasional dose of Gadfly energy, you can check out my side project at @fascistdemtracker.bsky.social or fdt.beehiiv.com. Truly, thank you all so much. 4/4
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Fascist Dem Tracker
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Gadfly @gadflypod.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Additionally with *gestures all at America* all of this, its been difficult to focus on history when all my energy wants to focus on the present. As such, we'll be putting Gadfly on indefinite hiatus. If you're a member of the Patreon, we will keep it up, but definitely feel free to unsubscribe. 3/4
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Gadfly @gadflypod.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
In 2023, I was diagnosed with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis. I had to re-learn how to type and found it much harder to research topics. Due to this, we switched to an every-two-weeks schedule. This worked for a while, but recently, even this has been too hard to maintain. 2/4
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Gadfly @gadflypod.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Hey, y'all! Posting today with a bit of sad news. Oona & I started this pod five years ago and it's been a ridiculous rush ever since. We've met amazing people and the fan base has been truly amazing. That said, matters of personal health have made it harder and harder to create each episode. 1/4
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Gadfly @gadflypod.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Crud. I thought I switched that over sooner than then.
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Gadfly @gadflypod.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
That should clear up. I started recording on my end on the wrong room setting.
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Gadfly @gadflypod.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
I honestly don't know. I hopped onto the newspapers.com archive and the phrase is a mess to search. I found kind of versions of it from the '50s and '60s, but there are far too many random classified ads to search through to find an exact match. I'd wager that there is, but that's purely vibes based
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Gadfly @gadflypod.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Hey, y'all! We're back from our holiday hiatus to tell you the story of a cute little cat named Stubbs. In the late '90s the small village of Talkeetna, Alaska made the town bodega cat their mayor. This is the story of not just Stubbs, but of Talkeetna itself.
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Stubbs Stec-Spone - Gadfly
Hey, y'all! We are back from our holiday hiatus and due to the world just being a ball of chaos, we are focusing on something a bit more whimsical. In the late '90s, the town of Talkeetna, Alaska name...
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Gadfly @gadflypod.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Does that mantra have some sort of contract deal that requires Democrats to use it at least once a quarter?
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
When you make eugenicist arguments, a Nazi will happily agree with you. "So you agree that mentally ill people are dangerous? We both agree that fat people need to be punished? Sounds like we're both disgusted by gay and trans people my friend" They'll nod along happily as you say Nazi shit.
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
We failed to stop fascism's rise. Now it's dancing about on the White House lawn. I don't know how to fix all this but I do know that the shit we've been doing won't get us out of this one. shatterzone.substack.com/p/we-failed-...
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We failed to stop the rise of fascism. What comes next?
How to navigate the future without a map.
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Soren Spicknall @sorenspicknall.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Already there are wannabe local influencers here in Chicago making all-caps posts about ICE raids in neighborhood Facebook groups because their friend saw an unmarked cop car somewhere and they consider that evidence enough to growth-hack off of people's fear. Listen to trusted orgs, not randos.
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Fascist Dem Tracker @fascistdemtracker.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
For a man of God, Raphael Warnock sure seems to be voting like he doesn't believe Hell is real.
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Adam H Johnson @ahjohnson.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Chicago Legal Responders Network has produced a series of short videos about what to do if ICE shows up at your house, stops you while driving, etc. Available in Spanish and English. Please share with those who may find them useful. Here's what to do if they show up at your house.
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En Su Casa
YouTube video by Chicago Legal Responders Network
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Gadfly @gadflypod.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
The instinct people online have to make a dumb clichéd joke in response to other people suffering in a way that will never affect them is really fucking annoying
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Gadfly @gadflypod.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Truly hope you can have an equal amount of fire for the 20% of Dems in the House and 40% of Dems in the Senate already lining up to vote for fascist laws.
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Laken Riley Act
HR 29/SR 5
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Gadfly @gadflypod.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
"Hi. My name's Joel and I'm completely disinterested in data. More of a bigoted vibes type guy."
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IMEU Policy Project Post-Election Polling Shows Gaza Cost Harris Votes — IMEU Policy Project
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Gadfly @gadflypod.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
And I wish #resist types cared as much about TikTok as the 20% of Dems in the House & 40% of Dems in the Senate who are already eager to support fascism.
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Laken Riley Act
HR 29/SR 5
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David Neiwert @davidneiwert.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
@jesspish.bsky.social raises the relevant questions about the opening salvo on immigrants and the eagerness of Democratic “centrists” to cooperate with what will inevitably prove to be a historic travesty. substack.com/@sheriffs/no...
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Are these the "working class" politics the center wanted?
January 18, 2024
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Gadfly @gadflypod.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
It's almost like the law wouldn't have passed unless Democrats voted for it. But hey, that was then. I'm sure there won't be a bloc of Democrats, say 20% in the house and ~40% in the senate, who are going to be reliable votes for fascism going forward
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Laken Riley Act
HR 29/SR 5
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Gadfly @gadflypod.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
True. Otherwise they'd have to come to terms that 20% of house Dems and 40% of senate Dems think the first fascist bill of the Trump era freaking rules
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Laken Riley Act
HR 29/SR 5
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Gadfly @gadflypod.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Also sorry if you've already seen this, but Pew's post election study has some really wild moments. The question at the bottom of this page showing that neither Biden or Harris were able to get a majority of their own voters to like them more than they disliked Trump.
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Voters Broadly Positive About How Elections Were Conducted, in Sharp Contrast to 2020
Trump voters’ skepticism about election administration and the counting of mail-in ballots declined sharply with their candidate’s win.
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Gadfly @gadflypod.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Checking out that study now and holy hell. Have to run some numbers, but this seems to really show that if they didn't support the genocide they could have won. Thanks for mentioning it! Link below for anyone who wants to look too.
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IMEU Policy Project Post-Election Polling Shows Gaza Cost Harris Votes — IMEU Policy Project
A poll released Wednesday, January 15, by IMEU Policy Project and YouGov found what few in the Democratic Party have been willing to admit: Vice President Harris lost votes because of the Biden administration’s support for Israel’s genocide of Palestinians in Gaza.
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Gadfly @gadflypod.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Surely they'll stop doing that with the incoming administration ahhh fuck
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Laken Riley Act
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Gadfly @gadflypod.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
A bill that over 20% of Democrats in the House voted for and made even worse by 21 Dems in the Senate
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Laken Riley Act
HR 29/SR 5
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Gadfly @gadflypod.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Is it just me or are a lot of big Blue accounts absolutely silent about the Laken Riley Act?
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Gadfly @gadflypod.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
Truly gets weirder the more I think about it.
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Imani Barbarin @imanibarbarin.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
Just so we’re all clear: -Dems bend over backwards to Netanyahu’s every whim carrying through with financing a genocide, Bibi wants Trump to win and it costs Dems the election. -At the request of Netanyahu, the Tiktok Ban bill is Revived under a Dem President, closer tying it to Biden moreso
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Ms . Penny Oaken @skywitchy.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
I want to do a quick “How To Tell That This Is An Op” tutorial, because apparently some propaganda tank or trollboard somewhere decided it’s time to send out Leftist Trolls, and they’re both very bad at it but also very effective. So let’s talk about How To Troll, Generic
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Gadfly @gadflypod.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
Going to be interesting to see if Rep. Robert Menendez starts voting more favorably with Trumpist bills all of a sudden
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
The Wall Street Journal says there will be a splashy ICE operation in Chicago on Tuesday. While the headline is lurid, the actual operation described in the piece (100-200 agents) seems not that unusual for ICE (google Operation Cross-check). Expect a PR blitz, though. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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Trump to Begin Large-Scale Deportations Tuesday
The incoming Trump administration is planning a large-scale immigration raid in Chicago next week, the first move in President-Elect Donald Trump’s promised mass deportation campaign.
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Dems are on board to pass Laken Riley in the Senate, a bill that mandates detention & deportation of immigrants *accused* of petty theft. Bill was amended to add that any immigrant accused of assaulting an officer should suffer same fate. This country is going to hell in a handbasket.
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
I've seen people dismiss the Pornhub bans, sometimes couching their dismissal in an anti-porn stance. What I don't think they realize is that the people pushing this stuff conflate porn with LGBTQ people and sex education and are part of Project 2025 mashable.com/article/free...
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What the Supreme Court hearing about age verification could mean for you
The court's decision could set a new precedent for free speech online.
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Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.blacksky.app · 17/01/2025
@debtcollective.bsky.social sent out an email newsletter yesterday that took the breath out my chest, warning people to screenshot and save their student loan payment just in case the incoming Trump administration/DOE DELETES people’s PSLF standings b/c loan servicers arent keeping track.
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Gadfly @gadflypod.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Glad to see you over here and for your continued work
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Gadfly @gadflypod.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
"Trust me, bro. You'll be fine!"
Portrait of President William Henry Harrison
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Gadfly @gadflypod.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
My desire to chain smoke flavored cigarillos while yelling "Jigglypuff" and slamming crumbled dollars on the ground went from non-existent to a primal fucking need
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Gadfly @gadflypod.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
You do seem to be more of a 'pro se' guy
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Gadfly @gadflypod.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Thanks to an amendment they also added "assault of a law enforcement officer," which protesters get erroneously charged with all the time.
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80 pro-Palestinian protesters have charges dropped after Art Institute encampment arrests
Dozens of pro-Palestinian protestors walked free Tuesday, after having their charges dropped following their arrests in May. Now, some local leaders are concerned this sends the wrong message, with th...
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Gadfly @gadflypod.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
"It adds suspense! What is Ted going to say? How is the next scene going to be described? Return my calls, FX!"
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Gadfly @gadflypod.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
You realize that executives tend to not want to work with people who get this unhinged with notes, right?
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Gadfly @gadflypod.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Always a great sign when page one starts with half a page of stage directions. That alone is sending the script straight into an intern's trash.
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The TRiiBE @thetriibe.com · 16/01/2025
NEW — Young Lords founder and revolutionary José “Cha Cha” Jiménez passed away on Jan. 10 Read these letters of love from Chairman Fred Hampton, Jr., son of the late Black Panther Party revolutionary; and the actor who played Jiménez in ‘Judas and the Black Messiah.’ thetriibe.com/2025/01/lett...
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Letters: Long live Chairman José ‘Cha Cha’ Jiménez of the Young Lords • The TRiiBE
Young Lords founder and revolutionary José “Cha Cha” Jiménez passed away on January 10, 2025. He was 76 years old.
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